{"id":160313,"date":"2025-10-16T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/160313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-catholic-leader-invites-pope-to-visit-the-country","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/160313\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 Catholic leader invites pope to visit the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 16, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The chairman of the Belarusian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Metropolitan Juzaf Stanie\u016dski, handed Pope Leo XIV an official invitation to visit Belarus during a private audience in the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Vatican News, the document was submitted \u201con behalf of the episcopate, the clergy and all the faithful of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked by the radio station whether Belarusian society and its Eastern Orthodox majority would accept this visit, Stanie\u016dski noted his good relations with Metropolitan Venijamin of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. He also pointed to several invitations issued to the pope by the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Separately, Stanie\u016dski and the pope talked about priests imprisoned in Belarus. Although the pope did not ask about them directly, the Belarusian delegation voiced concern about their fate. According to Stanie\u016dski, this information upset Leo XIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 8, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka congratulated Leo XIV on his election as the pope and invited him to visit Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/139327\/\">Belarus\u2019 Catholic bishops invite pope to visit the country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 16, Pozirk. The chairman of the Belarusian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Metropolitan Juzaf Stanie\u016dski, handed Pope Leo XIV an official invitation to visit Belarus during a private audience in the Vatican. According to Vatican News, the document was submitted \u201con behalf of the episcopate, the clergy and all the faithful of the country.\u201d Asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":160308,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-160313","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus\u2019 Catholic leader invites pope to visit the country | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 16, Pozirk. 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